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Site description (2008 baseline):
Site location and context
Seagrange Park is situated 1 km inland from Baldoyle and is separated from the estuary by Baldoyle village. This urban park is bounded on both the east and west by housing, to the north by a road and to the south by a railway line. Once farmed by a religious order, this flat, open area was developed as a recreational park in the early 1980’s. The eastern end has been particularly susceptible to flooding in recent winters (Harford 1994). Part of the park is used as a soccer pitch and is mostly mown grass. A section is now left unmown, and is developing into a marsh.
Seagrange Park is owned by Fingal County Council. It is not formally protected as a natural heritage site, and no management plan has been formulated. The SEMPA group have proposed that the playing pitches be moved to a more suitable location so that the park can be managed entirely as a wildlife refuge.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Seagrange Park (Ireland). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/seagrange-park-iba-ireland on 23/11/2024.
